Keyvan Karimi

Keyvan Karimi was arrested for making the movie "Writing on the City" and sentenced to prison and flogging in the primary court. The sentence caused a backlash in domestic and international circles. The appeal court reduced the sentence but the lashing remained. "Writing on the City" is a documentary about graffiti in Tehran since the revolution.

• <coverage-outsourcing id='10404'> He was arrested and transferred to Evin Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10405'> He was released. He was kept in solitary while in custody. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10406'> Judge Moghiseh at the 28th branch of the revolutionary court sentenced him to six years in prison and 223 lashes. According to Akskhanehwebsite, he was charged with sacrilege, propaganda against the state, and unallowed relations through shaking hands with a female. Amir Raisian was his attorney. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10407'> Keyvan Karimi, on October 2, 2015, was sentenced to 6 years incarceration and 223 lashes of the whip, by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran, headed by judge Moghiseh, on the charges of: blasphemy, propagating against the state, and kissing and handshaking a person of the opposite sex (not mahram). According to reports, Keyvan Karimi’s hearing was held with the presence of judges, Babaei and Pourarab, the representatives of IRGC intelligence, the Ministry of Intelligence, and of the Tehran’s prosecutor. In his defense against the charge of blasphemy, Karimi told the court that both the film and it’s clip, that are cited as evidence in the case, have never been published and can therefore not be used as evidence for the charge of blasphemy, a statement which the representatives, present in the court, also, confirmed </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10409'> 25 members of the European Parliament expressed concerns about the court's decision. Also Amnesty International, several film festivals, the national association of directors, writers, and actors in France and Italy, the national association of journalists and movie critics, PEN International, three oscar winning directors, Mozart Music Festival, and Valencia University were among people and organizations who expressed their objection to this sentence. Also, 670 directors and writers across the world and 137 documentary directors in Iran sent letters to the chief of judiciary asking for his exoneration. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10408'> He told Associated Press that he doesn't intend to leave the country and must serve the sentence. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10410'> He was summoned to Evin court by a phone call. He was arrested when he arrived and was taken to prison to serve his sentence. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10589'> HRANA reported that he is in the ward 4 quarantine. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10724'> HRANA reported that he is still in ward 4 quarantine without a mattress and sleeps on the ground. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10892'> Transferred to ward 8 of Evin Prison. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='10891'> France Radio reported that several figures of French cinema and a number of art and cinema organizations in this country have released a statement demanding his release. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12273'> HRANA reported that despite the order of the infirmary doctor, he is not being transferred to the hospital. According to the report, his lungs are severely infected, he is coughing up blood, and due to surgery, he had on his right leg to take out a tumor, without another surgery there is a risk of server bone marrow problems. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12343'> Right before Fajr Film Festival, Yousef Emadi, Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian, and Keyvan Karimi, wrote a letter from Evin Prison addressing artists in the country questioning them about their silence regarding the confiscation of their (prisoners') artwork and their prison sentences. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='12563'> Amnesty International released a report about his health condition and asked for sufficient medical treatment. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13886'> Amnesty International North American chapter, has devoted a letter writing campaign for the Iranian new year, Norouz, addressing: Saeed Malekpour, Keyvan Karimi, Mehdi Rajian, Hossein Rajabian, Nargess Mohammadi, MohammadAli Taheri, Atena Daemi, and Mahvash Sabet </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13504'> The 15th annual Geneva Film festival and Human Rights conference presented its award to Keyvan Samimi. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13346'> He was assaulted and beaten by a group of ordinary prisoners for no apparent reason. According to HRANA, the damage was so severe that the infirmary doctor orders his transfer to a hospital but the because he refused to wear the prison uniform and handcuffs and shackles, the prison authorities blocked his transfer to the hospital. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='13933'> He went on Nowruz furlough. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14837'> He was released on parole. </coverage-outsourcing>
• <coverage-outsourcing id='14661'> For the second year in a row, the 19th annual Buenos Aires Film Festival opened its program with a film from Keyvan Karimi. </coverage-outsourcing>